“And if there is any need for additional electricity, that can be taken care of through efficiency,” said GLELC executive director, Nick Schroeck.

“The cheapest kilowatt of electricity is that kilowatt that you do not have to generate. And spending perhaps $15 billion or more in real dollars on a new nuclear plant at Fermi just doesn’t make sense,” said Schroeck.

PIRGIM reports that 1.5 million people in Michigan drink water from sources too close to these plants.